West Boca Raton Community High School
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12811 Glades Road South Florida Boca Raton, Florida 33498 United States |
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| Coordinates | 26°21′44″N 80°14′54″W / 26.3621°N 80.2483°WCoordinates: 26°21′44″N 80°14′54″W / 26.3621°N 80.2483°W |
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| School type | Public, High School |
| Established | 2004 |
| School district | Palm Beach County School District |
| School number | 3251 |
| Principal | Craig Sommer |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 2,053 (2016-17) |
| Average class size | 19 |
| Language | English |
| School colour(s) | Tan, White, and Navy Blue |
| Mascot | Bull |
| Team name | West Boca Bulls |
| Newspaper | The Bullseye |
| Yearbook | Bullnanza |
| Website | School's Official Website |
West Boca Raton Community High School is an accredited public high school in an unincorporated area west of Boca Raton, Florida. The school is part of the School District of Palm Beach County and is zoned for the far western area of Boca Raton, with students from any part of the Palm Beach County School District able to enroll if they are accepted into at least one academy. Its curriculum includes a set of magnet programs, or academies, available to all students who qualify. Academies offered at West Boca High include Medical Science, Information Technology, Drafting and Design, Culinary Arts, and a new Performing Arts Academy scheduled to begin in the 2016-2017 school year. Cyber Security is also being added in the 2016-2017 school year.
West Boca High earned an "A" rating from the State of Florida Department of Education for each of its first two school years. In 2006, the school was honored as one of the top fifty high-performing high schools in the state of Florida.
Despite having previously earned "A" ratings, during the 2006–2007 school year West Boca High earned a "B" from the State of Florida Department of Education.http://schoolgrades.fldoe.org/default.asp
The school received an "A" rating for the 2007–2008 school year.
West Boca High received an "A" rating for the 2008–2009 school year. This grade was met with 64% of students getting high standards in reading, 91% in Math, 93% in Writing, and 60% in Science.
Each one of the five academy programs has received “National Model Academy” status from the National Career Academy Coalition/Association for Career and Technical Education.
The Medical Sciences Program offers programs designed to provide students with the medical skills and training to succeed in postsecondary healthcare education and/or to successfully transition into the healthcare workforce. This comprehensive program combines a very rigorous academic curriculum with intense clinical and laboratory experiences. Students have the opportunity to earn medical certifications in each program and all medical students will have one to two years of clinical experience at area hospitals and other health care facilities. WBHS offers five different program strands to select from: Allied Health Assisting, Emergency Medical Responder, Health and Wellness (Sports Medicine), Medical Lab Assisting, and Pharmacy Technician. This program gives the students a chance during their 3rd year in the academy to go on "clinicals" in which the students travel to West Boca Hospital where they observe and perform duties in the hospital which can range from taking vital signs, to assisting in births. This program has produced doctors who are currently active in their field. Not to mention, if the student decides in their 4th year to take Pharmacy, they are given the chance to become a Pharmacy Technician and hold a job.
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